Life — June 14, 1928 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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& Among the spring brides around here are Miss Mary Parke Kaye and Miss Virginia Barker, who were joined in the chains of matrimony respectively to John Edward Tarrant and Robert Drake Fitz- cerald of Milwaukee. Your scribe wishes these young people the best of luck. ***Cap Neal of our baseball club says his Colonels will win some games just as soon as the opposing pitchers and batters relax a little. ##*Flem Sampson, our affable Governor, and Bill Harrison, our popular Mayor, were pleasant guests at the opening of the Brown Hotel Roof Garden, There were also several others among those present and a good time was had by all. : Raymond Daumont. Paris (France) Gwyn was seen at Frank’s Ja Shoppe” last Saturday talk- ne out-of-town boys. Exskint “Ritz So ing to s ***Harry’s Soft Drink Emporium, in the rue Daunou, has been turned into an all- night stand. Harry says that lots of fire- men on the night shifts take advantage of the chance to drop in and get a sand- wich and glass of milk before turning in. en recently in and about the main stem: Jean Nash Dubonnet, Robert Benchley, the Duchesse de Guise, Sinclair Lewis, the various Princes and Princesses Obolensky, Ray Poincaré, Walter Hagen (golf player), the Babbitt family, Mr. and Mrs. Fairbanks, Myron Herrick, Gaston Doumérgue, Ramon N, Sameniec- gos, Adolphe Menjou, Lord Crewe, Grand Duke Boris, Will Hays. & Several of our leading dry-goods es are showing the latest Paris crea- tions for summer wear. André Citroén, our popular carriage builder and hackman, has installed a new line of yellow taxis of very metropolitan ¢, they being copied after the csigns seen in New York. Andy says he plans a service to mect all trains. ***Jo Zelli has reopened his Italian Spa- ghetti Parlor up on the hill. Jo still stands in the doorway to greet everyone with his friendly smile and handclasp as they pass in and out. “**Folks in this district are getting quite enthusiastic about our development as a center of the fine arts. Hubert Osborne, Ass't Director of Dramatic Art at Yale College, gave his latest play entitled “Eve's Complaint” a try-out at our popu- lar play house; and was high in his praise of the local amateur talent with which he worked. Ted Delano. “I was talking to a chap who said he read some spicy stuff when he was in Boston.” “Spicy stuff? Why, I thought that in Boston all books that——” “Who said anything about books? This fellow is a mind reader.” THE LATEST Yap: What was the idea of that young couple getting married in an airplan Sar: They did it for the advancement of aviation, . Stxciair’s Motto—To the victors belong the oils. “I wonder if you would mind to keep this cool for me while I shop a couple of hours?” rl La ) / eV MRS. PEP’S DIARY Lay late, pondering this and that, in especial why table d'héte dinners do always hold out on one clam or oyster and women who give so much time to com- mittees can certainly have nothing wrong with the large colon, and then trying to read Norman Douglas's “In the Begin- ning,” but found it rough going. Lord! I cannot wax enthusiastic over authors who must make up their own geography and scenery, like Cabell and Dunsany, and I do gravely doubt that I should stand for Valhalla were it not for the mighty music. I had far liefer have a tale laid in Hoboken, New Jersey, than in some mythical Poictesme, and it does seem a pity that Douglas, after waiting ten years to do a novel, should have done no better than try to set up a sophis- ticated Olympus. But I do well recall how disappointed I was in his “South Wind,” which many hold to be the most distin- guished of modern novels and the one from which most of the extreme school May 2 how comicbooks.com